A Glossary of Film Terms - Alphabetical and Subject Index

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A&B Rolls   |   Academy Aperture   |   Academy Leader   |   A.D.R.   |   Anamorphic   |   Answer Print   |   Aperture   |   Apple Box   |   Arm   |   Aspect Ratio   |   A.S.A.   |   A-Wind and B-Wind

Backwind   |   Balance Stripe   |   Barndoors   |   Barney   |   Base   |   Bayonet   |   Best Light   |   Bin   |   Black Leader   |   Blow Up   |   Blow Down   |   Blimp   |   Blimped Camera or Self-Blimped Camera   |   Bolex   |   Bounce Card   |   Bracketing   |   B-Wind

Cable Sync   |   The Call   |   Camera Core   |   Camera Original   |   Camera Noise   |   Camera Reports   |   Camera Roll   |   Camera Stock   |   Camera Tape   |   Canted Angle   |   Cement Splice   |   Changing Bag   |   Check Print   |   “Cheat”   |   Cinch Marks   |   Clamp Light   |   Clapper   |   Clapstick   |   Clap Board   |   C-Mount   |   Co-axial Magazine   |   Code Numbers   |   Colorist   |   Color Temperature   |   Conformations   |   Conforming   |   Contact Printing   |   Continuity   |   Coocoloris   |   Cookie   |   Core   |   Corrected Print   |   Corrections   |   Coverage   |   C.R.   |   Critical End!   |   Cross Modulation Test   |   Cross Processing   |   Crystal Sync   |   C.T.B.   |   C.T.O.   |   C-Stand   |   Cue Sheets   |   Cut   |   Cutaway

Dailies   |   Daylight Balanced   |   Daylight Spool   |   Depth of Field   |   Diffusion   |   Diopter   |   Dissolve   |   Dolly Shot   |   Double Exposure   |   Double Perf   |   Double Reel   |   Double System   |   Double System Projector   |   Dubbing   |   Dupe   |   Dutch Tilt

Edit   |   Editing Bench   |   Editing Bin   |   Editorial Sync   |   Edge Fog   |   Edge Numbers or Latent Edge Numbers   |   E.D.L.   |   E.C.N.   |   E.I.   |   Emulsion   |   Emulsion Batch   |   Emulsion Leader   |   Emulsion Type   |   Eye Line   |   Estar Base   |   Exciter Lamp   |   Exposure Index   |   Extention Tubes

Fade   |   5,400K   |   Filler   |   Fill or Sound Fill   |   Film Cement   |   Film Speed   |   Film Plane   |   Filter   |   Fixed Focal Length Lens   |   Flag   |   Flare   |   Flash Frame   |   Flatbed   |   Flex-Fill   |   Focal Length   |   Fog   |   Foley   |   Follow Focus   |   Footage   |   Foot Candle   |   Frame   |   Frame Handles   |   Frame Line   |   French Flag   |   F-stop   |   Fullcoat

Gaffer’s Tape   |   Gate   |   Gauge   |   Gel   |   Gobo   |   Groundglass   |   Guillotine

Halation   |   Half Apple   |   Halogen   |   Handheld   |   Head   |   Head Room   |   Hi Hat   |   HMI   |   Hot Splicer   |   House Lights   |   Hyperfocal Distance

Incident Light Reading   |   Infinity   |   Insert Shot   |   Interlocked   |   Internegative   |   Interpositive   |   Intervalometer   |   Iris   |   I.S.O.

Jump Cut

K   |   Kelvin

Lab Roll   |   Latent Edge Numbers   |   Latitude   |   Lens Flare   |   L.F.O.A.   |   Lights   |   Lightleak   |   Lip Sync   |   Loading Booth   |   Location Sound   |   Locked Cut   |   Locked Down Shot   |   Long Lens   |   Loop   |   Looping   |   Low Con Print

Macro Lens   |   Mag   |   Magazine   |   Mag Stock, Mag Track or Magnetic Film   |   Mark   |   “Mark it!”   |   Master Shot   |   Matte Box   |   Matte Shot   |   M&E   |   Mix   |   Mixer   |   Mixing House   |   Mix Master   |   M.O.S.   |   The Movement   |   Moviola   |   Moviscop

Negative   |   Negative Cutter or Negative Matcher   |   Non-Reflex   |   Normal Lens   |   Nose Room

One Light   |   Optical Printing   |   Optical Sound   |   Optical Track   |   Opticals   |   Orange Stick   |   Original   |   O.C.N.   |   Outdated Stock   |   Outtakes   |   Overcrank   |   Overexposure

Paper Tape   |   Pan   |   Parallel Editing   |   Perf   |   Pigeon   |   Pilottone   |   Pitch   |   Picture   |   Pix   |   Photo Flood   |   Plastic Leader   |   Polyester Base   |   P.O.V. Shot   |   Practical   |   Preroll   |   Pressure Plate   |   Print   |   Print Stock   |   Printer’s Sync   |   Production Sound   |   Projection Sync   |   Pull Down   |   Pulldown Claw   |   Pull Processing   |   Pull Up   |   Push Processing

Quarter Apple   |   Quartz Light   |   Quick Release   |   Quick Release Shoe

Rack Focus   |   Rank   |   Raw Stock   |   Reaction Shot   |   Recans   |   Reduction Print   |   Reel   |   Reflective Light Reading   |   Reflector Board or Reflector Card   |   Reflex   |   Registration   |   Registration Pin   |   Release Print   |   Resolver   |   Reversal   |   Reverse Shot   |   Rewinds   |   Rivas   |   Room Tone   |   Rough Cut   |   Rushes

“Safety”   |   Sandbag   |   Scene   |   Scratch   |   Scratch Mix   |   Scratch Test   |   Scratch Track   |   “Second Sticks!”   |   Selects   |   Silent Camera   |   Silent Speed   |   Single Perf   |   Single Reel   |   Single System   |   Sharpie   |   Shooting Ratio   |   Shortends   |   Shot   |   The Slate   |   Slop Print   |   Slug   |   S.M.P.T.E. Leader   |   Soft Light   |   Sound Blanket   |   Sound Reader   |   Sound Speed   |   Sound Slug   |   Spacer   |   Specifics   |   “Speed!”   |   Spider   |   Spikes   |   Splice   |   Splicing Tape   |   Split Reel   |   Spool Down   |   Spot Meter   |   Split Screen   |   Spreader   |   Spring Lock   |   Sprocket   |   Sprocket Holes   |   Spun   |   Squawk Box   |   Streamer   |   Steenbeck   |   The Sticks   |   Stinger   |   Stripe   |   Super 16   |   Super Speed   |   Superimposition   |   Sync   |   Syncing   |   Sync Mark   |   Synchronizer   |   Sync Sound

Tachometer   |   Tail   |   Tail Slate   |   Take   |   Take Up Reel   |   Take Up Spool   |   The Taking Lens   |   Tape Splice   |   Telecine   |   Telephoto   |   3,200K   |   Tie-In Kit   |   Tight Wind   |   Tight Wind Hub   |   Tilt   |   Time Lapse   |   Timed Print   |   Timer   |   Timing   |   Timing Lights   |   Timing Report   |   Tone   |   Tracking Shot   |   Trims   |   Trim Bin   |   Tripod Head   |   T-Stop   |   Tungsten   |   Turret

Ultra-Sonic Cleaner   |   Ultra-Sonic Splicer   |   Undercrank   |   Underexposure   |   “Unprofessional”   |   Upright Moviola or Upright

Vari Speed   |   Vault Box

Wet Gate   |   Wide Lens   |   Wild   |   Wild Sound   |   Workprint   |   A Wrap or “It’s a Wrap!”

Xenon

Zero Cut   |   Zoom Lens



Subject Index


The Film Itself:

Aspect Ratio   |   A-Wind and B-Wind   |   Double Perf   |   Edge Fog   |   Edge Numbers or Latent Edge Numbers   |   E.C.N.   |   Emulsion   |   Emulsion Batch   |   Emulsion Leader   |   Emulsion Type   |   Estar Base   |   Flash Frame   |   Fog   |   Gauge   |   Halation   |   Latent Edge Numbers   |   Lightleak   |   Original   |   O.C.N.   |   Outdated Stock   |   Perf   |   Pitch   |   Polyester Base   |   Raw Stock   |   Recans   |   Reversal   |   Scratch   |   Single Perf   |   Shortends   |   Sprocket Holes   |   Super 16


Camera equipment:

Barney   |   Blimp   |   Blimped Camera or Self-Blimped Camera   |   Bolex   |   Co-axial Magazine   |   Diopter   |   Film Plane   |   French Flag   |   Gate   |   Groundglass   |   Handheld   |   Intervalometer   |   Mag   |   Magazine   |   Matte Box   |   The Movement   |   Non-Reflex   |   Pressure Plate   |   Pulldown Claw   |   Reflex   |   Silent Camera   |   Tachometer   |   Take Up Spool   |   Turret   |   Vari Speed


Lenses:

Anamorphic   |   Aperture   | Bayonet   |   C-Mount   |   Depth of Field   |   Extention Tubes   |   Fixed Focal Length Lens   |   Flare   |   Focal Length   |   F-stop   |   Groundglass   |   Hyperfocal Distance   |   Infinity   |   Iris   |   Lens Flare   |   Long Lens   |   Macro Lens   |   Normal Lens   |   Super Speed   |   The Taking Lens   |   Telephoto   |   T-Stop   |   Wide Lens   |   Zoom Lens


The Tripod:

Hi Hat   |   Quick Release   |   Quick Release Shoe   |   Spreader   |   Spider   |   The Sticks   |   Tripod Head


Exposure:

Aperture   |   A.S.A.   |   Bracketing   |   Depth of Field   |   E.I.   |   Emulsion Type   |   Exposure Index   |   Film Speed   |   Foot Candle   |   F-stop   |   Incident Light Reading   |   Iris   |   I.S.O.   |   Latitude   |   Overexposure   |   Reflective Light Reading   |   Spot Meter   |   T-Stop   |   Underexposure


Color Film:

Color Temperature   |   C.T.B.   |   C.T.O.   |   Daylight Balanced   |   5,400K   |   Filter   |   Gel   |   K   |   Kelvin   |   3,200K   |   Tungsten


Lighting and Grip equipment:

Barndoors   |   Bounce Card   |   Clamp Light   |   Coocoloris   |   Cookie   |   C.T.B.   |   C.T.O.   |   C-Stand   |   Diffusion   |   Flag   |   Flex-Fill   |   Gel   |   Gobo   |   Half Apple   |   Halogen   |   HMI   |   K   |   Pigeon   |   Photo Flood   |   Practical   |   Quarter Apple   |   Quartz Light   |   Reflector Board or Reflector Card   |   Sandbag   |   Tie-In Kit   |   Tungsten


Raw Materials, production:

Camera Core   |   Camera Tape   |   Core   |   Daylight Spool   |   Gaffer’s Tape   |   Orange Stick   |   Sharpie


Types of Shots and Coverage:

Cutaway   |   Canted Angle   |   “Cheat”   |   Continuity   |   Coverage   |   Dolly Shot   |   Dutch Tilt   |   Eye Line   |   Follow Focus   |   Insert Shot   |   Handheld   |   Head Room   |   Locked Down Shot   |   Master Shot   |   Matte Shot   |   M.O.S.   |   Nose Room   |   Parallel Editing   |   P.O.V. Shot   |   Rack Focus   |   Reaction Shot   |   Reverse Shot   |   “Safety”   |   Shot   |   Take   |   Tracking Shot


The Call:

The Call   |   “Mark it!”   |   “Second Sticks!”   |   “Speed!”   |   Tail Slate   |   A Wrap or “It’s a Wrap!”


Other Shooting Techniques:

Backwind   |   Double Exposure   |   Overcrank   |     Pan   |   Superimposition   |   Time Lapse   |   Tilt   |   Undercrank


Other Production Terms:

Academy Aperture   |   Cable Sync   |   Camera Reports   |   Camera Roll   |   Changing Bag   |   Clapper   |   Clapstick   |   Clap Board   |   C.R.   |   Crystal Sync   |   Flare   |   Interlocked   |   Lightleak   |   Loading Booth   |   Mark   |   Scratch Test   |   Silent Speed   |   Shooting Ratio   |   The Slate   |   Sound Speed   |   Spikes   |   Spool Down   |   “Unprofessional”   |   Wild


Sound:

A.D.R.   |   Balance Stripe   |   Camera Noise   |   Cross Modulation Test   |   Cue Sheets   |   Double System   |   Dubbing   |   Exciter Lamp   |   Fill or Sound Fill   |   Fullcoat   |   Lip Sync   |   Location Sound   |   Mag   |   Mag Stock, Mag Track or Magnetic Film   |   M&E   |   Mix   |   Mixer   |   Mixing House   |   Mix Master   |   M.O.S.   |   Optical Sound   |   Optical Track   |   Pilottone   |   Production Sound   |   Pull Down   |   Pull Up   |   Resolver   |   Room Tone   |   Scratch Mix   |   Single System   |   Sound Reader   |   Sound Speed   |   Sound Fill   |   Sound Slug   |   Specifics   |   Stripe   |   Sync Sound   |   Tone   |   Wild Sound


Editing:

Academy Leader   |   Bin   |   Code Numbers   |   Conformations   |   Core   |   Cut   |   Dissolve   |   Double Reel   |   Double System Projector   |   Edit   |   Editing Bench   |   Editing Bin   |   Editorial Sync   |   Edge Numbers or Latent Edge Numbers   |   Fade   |   Filler   |   Flash Frame   |   Flatbed   |   Frame   |   Frame Handles   |   Frame Line   |   Guillotine   |   Head   |   Hot Splicer   |   Jump Cut   |   Locked Cut   |   Moviola   |   Moviscop   |   Outtakes   |   Paper Tape   |   Parallel Editing   |   Picture   |   Pix   |   Plastic Leader   |   Reel   |     |   Rewinds   |   Rivas   |   Rough Cut   |   Rushes   |   Selects   |   Single Reel   |   Sharpie   |   Shot   |   Slug   |   S.M.P.T.E. Leader   |   Spacer   |   Splice   |   Splicing Tape   |   Split Reel   |   Spring Lock   |   Squawk Box   |   Streamer   |   Steenbeck   |   Superimposition   |   Sync   |   Syncing   |   Sync Mark   |   Synchronizer   |   Tail   |   Take Up Reel   |   Tape Splice   |   Tight Wind   |   Tight Wind Hub   |   Trims   |   Trim Bin   |   Upright Moviola or Upright   |   Vault Box


The Laboratory:

Answer Print   |   Check Print   |   Dailies   |   Best Light   |   Blow Up   |   Blow Down   |   Contact Printing   |   Corrected Print   |   Corrections   |   Cross Modulation Test   |   Cross Processing   |   Dupe   |   House Lights   |   Internegative   |   Interpositive   |   Lab Roll   |   Low Con Print   |   One Light   |   Optical Printing   |   Opticals   |   Print   |   Print Stock   |   Printer’s Sync   |   Projection Sync   |   Pull Processing   |   Push Processing   |   Reduction Print   |   Rushes   |   Slop Print   |   Timed Print   |   Timer   |   Timing   |   Timing Report   |   Ultra-Sonic Cleaner   |   Wet Gate   |   Workprint


Negative Cutting:

A&B Rolls   |   Black Leader   |   Cement Splice   |   Conforming   |   E.D.L.   |   Film Cement   |   Hot Splicer   |   Negative   |   Negative Cutter or Negative Matcher   |   Original   |   O.C.N.   |   Ultra-Sonic Splicer   |   Zero Cut


Video Transfer:

Colorist   |   E.D.L.   |   Low Con Print   |   Pull Down   |   Pull Up   |   Rank   |   Telecine   |   Ultra-Sonic Cleaner





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